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[pastwatcher]

What if the only significant educational "reform" we manage in the next few years is Christian-imperialist American history? The history classes I took were pretty bad even when it came to US history, and my world geography still sucks. (I still can't BELIEVE that I never learned about our 20th-century genocides, such as the Japanese in WWII, or the horrific cage-->abuse-->kill "educational" program for Native American children.) But I'm pretty sure this would be worse.

EDIT: Though maybe I should be taking seriously the threat that growing creationist education poses to scientists. (I've never been one to say that religion should be abolished altogether; spiritual religion is a comfort to people, institutionalized religion can do good things as well as bad. But I abhor any mentality that enables people not to take responsibility for their own morals and actions...so I'm starting to wonder.)

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[dergnoam.livejournal.com]

Most states are saner than Texas, but, unfortunately, Texas is one of the few where the state actually buys the textbooks. In New York, for instance, there is a state board that prescribes (pretty loose) standards for what schools have to teach, but it doesn't order them to buy specific books to fulfill that standard.